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Did Cannabis Help me Write and Travel?
The quick answer is NO – cannabis did not help me write and travel – in fact, it did the exact opposite: it made me unable to write and paranoid when travelling. If I hadn’t given up the evil weed I don’t think I would have made it to Tibet or written a book about my...
Travelling Alone in the USA — How I Got Away
Manuela Boghian tells the story of how she got it together to go travelling in the USA for three months. When I wrote this article I was travelling on the Seattle - Fargo train. I was on that train for about 38 hours. My phone died so I was guessing the time after the...
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Improve Your Travel Skills on Weekends & Holidays
Weekends and holidays are the ideal opportunity to practice your travel skills. Most of us use weekends to catch up with sleep, housework, movies and other things which, in the grand scheme of things, are irrelevant for our personal development. I’m horrified by how...
How Hitchhiking Suppressed my Fear of Travelling Alone
Fear of travelling alone was a real problem for me. As soon as I got out of the suffocating grip of university I planned to escape, to travel to the other side of the world, to travel alone for years …
The Beauty of Getting Lost
Getting lost in an unknown location is central to my approach to travel. If you have a sense of faith (“everything’s going to be okay”) and are not liable to panic, getting lost can result in discovering wonderful things and meeting new people. There’s also a...
Introduction to Working Abroad
There’s a curious relationship between cash and independent travel. On the one hand any form of travel is impossible without it while, on the other hand, money is the last thing I want to think about when planning a trip. In my experience the key to independent travel...
10 Skills for Independent Travel
There was no way I could have travelled to Tibet and spent two years abroad without building up what I call independent travel skills. These are the practices that enabled me to thrive in foreign cultures. In this article I will explain these skills in the hope that...
- The Psychology of Travel - March 14, 2018